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London Turned into Giant Board Game
webponce writes "Hasbro have fitted out 18 London cabs with GPS tracking devices, and hooked them up to a real time, real life game of monopoly. You get to choose which cab driver you want to 'play' with, and then pick which properties around London you want to put your houses and hotels, hit go, sit back and wait for the other cab drivers to land on your square and make you rent. You get 24 hours of your cab running around London, and you have to see how much money you can make in a day (my bet, put your property on Wimbledon this week ;)"
real life counterstrike would be better... guess you'd have to go to iraq for that though...
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What frequency is this giant board game broadcasting on?
Steve Jobs is also playing and he's landed on Regent Street.
Watch out horses, Vegas, and greyhounds. Make way for the next level in high stakes betting. Who wouldn't be willing to put down a few real dollars ( or pounds) on a real live Monopoly game for once? I can see it now, Hasbro goes from clean cut toy company and becomes a modern day Mafia. Leading the way to high tech illegal gambling and racketeering.
"Man, I am so unbelievably stupid."
And you have to send them your email address to sign up.
Apparently I've been receiving notices about this game for the past year or so and just didn't realize it was Hasbro.
Stop spam!
Oldschool cardboard-and-paper Monopoly is boring as hell. This sounds much more fun, since you can just get out of the cab and go to the pub.
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
Can't wait for "Halo 3, Bagdad".
"ObliGITory spelling error"
hmm...
...that some lucky cab rider gets a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card? If so, are there limits to what they can do to land themselves in jail? ;)
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passed DOWNING STREET, collect your shackles and report to lifetime imprisonment inside the tower of london.
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Democrats flew President Bush over (on the pretense of buying him a pet sheep) for a similar trick, but Bush simply changed the constitution so that while he didn't have to go to jail, he did get to collect $200, and without having to pass Go, either. He then rewrote to board to read "Go directly to Guatanamo Bay. And stay there."
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For ultimate realism, they should play in Tokyo where Godzilla can act as the dog that comes and eats your hotels.
Playing real-life Monopoly in London is kinda of dangerous with all the spooks, CIA agents, and Russians with posion-tipped umbellas running around. Personally, I would try my luck with a pissed off New York taxi driver since it would be safer as the muggers get run over more often than the pigeons.
1. You wouldn't be in direct control of the soldiers, they'd just go where they wanted to.
And this is different from Counter-Strike how, exactly?
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Of course, with the success of the London edition, Hasbro is considering deploying a US Version (aka "The Original"), in which, as is known, the streets are those of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The Taxicabs will still be there, but to ensure proper coverage of the board, GPS transceivers will also be attached to a select number of Hookers, Pimps, and Retirees off the bus from NYC.
What is to stop someone from getting in another player's chosen cab and keep going to their own property thus getting lots of money?
Common sense.
yeah, but it did help me come second in a beauty contest.
I've always fancied doing to The London Monopoly Pub Crawl.
You take the board under one arm and start at the first pub you can find in the Old Kent Road. After a pint you move onto a pub in Whitechapel Road. Pretty standard pub crawl stuff. Maybe a half would have to do though.
Loads of people have given it a go.
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It's actually more fun for the passengers.
....10 minutes later a police-man pulls them over....
Cab: Where do you want to go?
Passenger: Regent Street
Cab: You sure you really want to go there? I hear they've got some hotels on that street.
Passenger: Yeah I'm sure.
Cab: Alright.
Cab: What's the problem officer?
Policeman: This one of them monopoly cabs?
Cab: Yup.
Policeman: Can you and your passenger get out of the vehicle, this street has been designated the go to jail street.
Cab: Aaah shit.
Passenger: Don't worry, I've got a get out of jail free card.
Mornington Cresent, cabbie.
Ah but you wouldn't be sat on the sofa; you'd be driving your unlicensed mini-cab around making a bit of money on the side. Now a version of Hasbro's game that followed mini-cabs would be more interesting: "Your Driver is crawling the kerbs in Streatham muttering 'cab?' at drunken women coming out of a disco" (0 points) "Your driver is attempting a sexual assault" (0 points)" "Your driver is attempting to explain to the police why he has no insurance" (0 points) Sean
Steal another player's cab and drive it around. (Yes, stealing a data-linked cab with GPS would be stupid. So what? Plenty of stupid crimes every day.)
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The EU fined Hasbro 493 million euros and ordered them to produce a version of the game where the cabs had no seat belts.
You simply stop by Chance and get a "Get out of Jail Free" card.
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